Bokashi Composting and other tips to reduce food waste at home

Wazzup Pilipinas!

"Together with Janine Gutierrez, WWF-Ph National Youth Ambassador, Rayne Roque, WWF-Ph Sustainable Consumer Specialist for The Sustainable Diner Project, and Rina Papio, Green Space President, let’s learn how to divert food waste at home and how composting benefits our soil!" 

This is how it looks like when you are taking notes from a zoom webinar:

We need millions of people doing it imperfectly. Together we can make a difference.

Compost benefits for plantitas and plantitos home garden..

Composting (Bokashi) from Greenspace

Divert food wastes away from landfills and into urban gardens. Keeping it away from landfills to regenerate the planet by building healthy soil

Food waste is the third highest emitter of methane gases

We need more beneficial microbes in.our guys, in our food, in our soil which grows the food.

We're trashing the planet for free.

New way to food waste - compost buckets

Contributing in healing the planet - land fillers to land healers

Bokashi Fermented organic matter from Japanese

Collect, ferment, compost stages

Anaerobic composting requires a tightly sealed bucket

Bokashi bran - rice bran (darak), CRH, EM-1

All food waste can be added - layering

1 handful Bokashi bran for every tub of food waste, less liquid, less air

Fermented sweet-sour smell

Wanted Soil mates!

Seriously, Bokashi composting is a process of fermentation that is able to quickly convert food waste into productive compost. The microbes, yeast and fungi developed in the 2-3 week process are key in building a healthy soil structure. 

Unlike traditional back-yard composting, this can be done right in your kitchen with nothing but your leftovers and the Bokashi bran. This method works for ALL food scraps, and shouldn't give off any foul odors throughout the process. 

Once the cycle is done, you are left with compost good for your own house plants, and maybe even  some for your neighbors'! 

Tips to reduce food waste at home from WWF-Philippines

1. Give ugly produce a chance 

2. Create a shopping list

3. Plan your meal

4. Check the storage

5. Know serving sizes - Pinggang Pinoy

6. Be creative with your next meal - food preservation, use ingredients for several recipes

7. Share excess food - Rise against hunger

8. Start your home garden

9. Make a compost

10. Share these tips with others

Well, if you understood my notes it means you are probably wanting to be a Soil mate too. You care enough for the environment to know that we must do something now to reduce our food waste and turn what we can't reuse or recycle into something that will heal our soil to eventually able to grow healthier food, and thus make us a better person.

Thanks to WWF-Philippines for organizing this type of webinar that will benefit each one of us to make us a part of sustainable living.